Me!

I can’t go to shopping malls by myself because I get disorientated and very anxious. Once I started crying in front of Build-A-Bear because I couldn’t figure out how to get out of the mall.

I really hate cauliflower. It scares me. I firmly believe that it will one day rise up and kill us all.

At one point, I was convinced that I would marry Atreyu from The Neverending Story. Nobody knew it, but he was totally into me.

I once stuck my hand in the toaster oven because I didn’t believe my mother when she told me that it was hot.

I was ostracized in first grade because I murdered the class duckling when it was my turn to take it home. Well, I didn’t kill it myself, but I did lose it. I’m sure that San Jose traffic killed it straightaway. Poor Ducky.

I hide it well, but I have a freakishly large head. I’m talking bobble-head large.

When I was little, I couldn’t say spaghetti. I called it Jeopardy. Clearly, since very early on in my life, the powers of the universe never meant for me to be cool.

About me

I'm a twenty-something American woman who tried to make sense of dating and romance in Paris -- or the lack thereof. The Frenchmen were products on the shelf, and I was a shopaholic. But the social experiment continues in D.C., now that I'm back in the USA and on the prowl for new (American) toys to play with!